Chapter 14 why the fuck aren't you in my room?

Apparently, Lord Cullen decided he wanted to meet his new maid in person.

The meeting didn't go well.

As soon as I came inside, Cullen looked me over and frowned. He told me all about how he was expecting and i quote " Someone else ".and not. And I quote again a " Starved, malnourished child ".

He thought of some more insults, most of them directed at my visible bones, I was all shades of uncomfortable at the point especially since Cullen was a 65 year old married man. I never met the guy until this point but I heard all sorts of the rumors about him.

Apparently he was an accused rapist before he became a Lord. The thought of that made my heart beat increases ten fold and I feared I would get another attack.

I tried my hardest to stand up straight even with the bruises that were slowly draining all my energy but somehow my back just snapped and I fell to the floor.

I slowly got up but fell back down when I felt a huge smack on my face.

Tears started to spill from my eyes which earned me another slap from Cullen.

I wanted to scream so bad, but I knew it would get even worse if I did. No one would have helped me anyway.

Cullen laughed as I choked back tears and with one last smack on my ass he finally left the room leaving me to clean.

I silently cried as the brush swept across the floor I was terrified he was still listening and would come back to finish what he started. I knew that if I continued working for him, soon enough I would unwillingly loose my innocence, but I had no other choice.

My back still ached but I liked to believe it was better than when I woke up. I hoped it was slowly but effectively healing.

I dropped the mop back into the water when I realized there was no water left.

I almost had a full on attack right there, it felt as if my heart stopped yet it was beating so fast and than a stray tear ran down my cheek.

I was scared. Scratch that. Terrified.

I took a deep breath and tried to go over my options.

I looked around the room.

It wasn't even half - cleaned! I couldn't just leave all the way down to get water! I would never make it back in time and only God knows what Cullen would do to me then.

.... I didn't want to find out.

I could just continue my work and hope Cullen doesn't notice, but I already knew that was not the case.

Cullen was famous amongst the maids for scooping each and every move they make to find a simple excuse to punish them. And Cullen's punishment weren't whips....

I wanted to cry as I found myself in yet another hopeless situation and I didn't even have kedrick here to help me this time.

I forced my breathing to slow down and I slowly thought about what I would do next.

I decided to risk it.

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I ran down stairs at top speed. Thankfully, I didn't run into any guard or Lord because that would have guaranteed me at least a whip.

My back was killing me at this point but I had no choice but to ignore it.

Breathless, I finally reached the janitor's closet where I filled out the bucket with the best cleaning water money could buy, I had half a mind to drink the water because of how dried up my mouth was, but the more logical part of my brain reminded me that I didn't want to spend the next few days trying to hold in my puke.

The way back was much more stressful than the way up. I couldn't run up the stairs without spilling the water which caused the panic to fill my body up yet again.

I arrived at the 14th floor, bucket in hand as I kept one eye down silently praying no drops dripped out of place. It was only then when I walked into a huge rigid build that I had realized my mistake.

With a sob caught up in my throat, I pushed myself off only to realize the horrible truth.

That was no build.

No.

That was..

" Why the fuck aren't you in my room! " Alister growled.

And he didn't look happy.

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